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“Hugh Jackman LIVE” and “Beckett Briefs” Make a Spectacle of Time’s Passage
In “Hugh Jackman LIVE, from New York with Love,” the Oscar-nominated, multiple Tony Award-winning Marvel mega-super-über-ultrastar can’t seem to get over the fact that he has his own show...
Frederick Wiseman’s Real-Life Epics
“Low Tide,” 2023. Photograph by Mary Mattingly / Courtesy Robert Mann GalleryMary Mattingly’s photographs of moonlit gardens turn the Robert Mann gallery into a hallucinatory hothouse. Vivid and wild...
The Political Drama of “I’m Still Here” Is Moving but Airbrushed
In 1970, six years into Brazil’s military dictatorship, Rubens Paiva, a civil engineer and a former left-wing politician, returned to the country after years of self-imposed exile. Not long...
“This Woman” and Her Tangled World
The Chinese artist and filmmaker Alan Zhang, in her first feature, dramatizes a married woman’s struggle for freedom amid financial and emotional obstacles. Source link
A Young Girl Questions Wearing a Head Scarf in “Rizoo”
When the filmmaker Azadeh Navai was five years old, her mother took her to have her photo taken for an I.D. And, before she knew it, a scarf was...
Kadir Nelson’s “Messenger”
For the cover of the February 3, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson captured the emotion he experienced when, walking downtown, he startled a flock of pigeons. “I felt...
Catherine Breillat’s Unsettling Cinema of Desire
In the French director Catherine Breillat’s film “Fat Girl,” from 2001, two adolescent sisters go on summer holiday with their parents near the seaside. The older sister, Elena, is...
The Insidious Charms of the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic
No literary form captures the pathologies of contemporary American work quite like the humble—honored, grateful, blessed—LinkedIn post. In the right light, the social network for professionals is a lavish...
The Player’s the Thing in “Grand Theft Hamlet”
In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge had this to say:Persons conversant in deeds of cruelty contrive to escape from conscience by connecting something...
